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What does Metroid Prime have to do with July-sales?



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Burek said:
So, I looked at NCAA Football. It sold some 700k in July.
Of course, it's not an exact science due to other games, but 15% drop off would put TLOUR somewhere at 550-600k.
Assuming they predicted 600k, my guess is then TLOUR at 550k.
Only in the US in 3 days.
A failure?


In NPD thread someone said TLOUR sold 270k in 5 days because they track up to Saturday. And what NCAA game are you looking at? 14 sold 900k and there isnt a 15.

Nvm, chart took me to Global. But yeah



Huh... that's strange. I don't think OoT, Metroid Prime, Halo, Resident Evil 4, or Super Mario Galaxy came out in July.

In fact they all came out in November except RE4, which came out in January. These analysts need to check their dates.



melbye said:
What does Metroid Prime have to do with July-sales?

Nothing! Those analysts are simply out of their minds!



                
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Vena said:
Huh... that's strange. I don't think OoT, Metroid Prime, Halo, Resident Evil 4, or Super Mario Galaxy came out in July.

In fact they all came out in November except RE4, which came out in January. These analysts need to check their dates.

Umm did you miss the best game of all time part in the title? That's not how we refer to those games.



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bubblegamer said:

Umm did you miss the best game of all time part in the title? That's not how we refer to those games.


Nope. Those are the best games of each generation as saying "best game of all time" is crass and rather pointless (Galaxy and Galaxy 2 are of the Wii/PS3/X360 generation and have the highest rating of said generation, therein TLOUR cannot be the best game of all time when it can't even be the best game of its own generation. Heck, even Batman is above it). I mean, you can even look them up! (Though technically GTAIV is in the running along with Galaxy but its user score is lower.)

And, remember, this is statistics at work. And none of them came out in July.



TheFallen said:
Vikki said:
The best game of all time? Resident Evil 4 had nothing to do with this.


TLOU is the RE4 of the 7th Gen.

Is it fuck.



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Vena said:
bubblegamer said:

Umm did you miss the best game of all time part in the title? That's not how we refer to those games.


Nope. Those are the best games of each generation as saying "best game of all time" is crass and rather pointless (Galaxy and Galaxy 2 are of the Wii/PS3/X360 generation and have the highest rating of said generation, therein TLOUR cannot be the best game of all time when it can't even be the best game of its own generation. Heck, even Batman is above it). I mean, you can even look them up! (Though technically GTAIV is in the running along with Galaxy but its user score is lower.)

And, remember, this is statistics at work. And none of them came out in July.

None of those had such an impact as TLOU. Metacritic is not how you measure that, the levels of hate towards it is. You know you have a winner when others get nervous at the mere mention of it.



AZWification said:

Whaaat? Didn't Mario Galaxy come out almost 7 years ago?!


Galaxy came out 7 years ago?

*checks wikipedia*

Oh boy....I feel old....I need to sit down.



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bubblegamer said:

None of those had such an impact as TLOU. Metacritic is not how you measure that, the levels of hate towards it is. You know you have a winner when others get nervous at the mere mention of it.


Halo/Metroid Prime/RE4 didn't have the leve of impact as TLOU? You sure about that? Because I'm pretty sure you are very, very wrong.

Edit: Totally forgot OoT.